AI is being sold to police departments as a time saving tool. Science and technology journalist Greg Barber says the results can be more complicated, with limited evidence that this tech can meaningfu...

A police technology CEO said at least 50% of a police department’s workload can be automated. One local sergeant found the idea “absurd.”

These Livingston Award finalists highlight excellence in reporting and storytelling by journalists under the age of 35. Here is the best work of 2024 from young reporters.

Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.

Climate science is the most significant scientific collaboration in history. This series from Quanta Magazine guides you through basic climate science — from quantum effects to ancient hothouses, from...

A Conversation with Amanda Silverman, Features Editor at MIT Technology Review

Climate science is the most significant scientific collaboration in history. This series from Quanta Magazine guides you through basic climate science — from quantum effects to ancient hothouses, from...

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

The tech behemoth is betting that planting millions of eucalyptus trees in Brazil will be the path to a greener future. Some ecologists and local residents are far less sure.

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Two new notions of infinity challenge a long-standing plan to define the mathematical universe.

An exploration of how artificial intelligence is changing what it means to do science and math, and what it means to be a scientist.

The tech behemoth is betting that planting millions of eucalyptus trees in Brazil will be the path to a greener future. Some ecologists and local residents are far less sure.

The tech behemoth is betting that planting millions of eucalyptus trees in Brazil will be the path to a greener future. Some ecologists and local residents are far less sure.

The world needs thousands of new grid battery installations to fight climate change. They rarely catch fire—but many people are skeptical of having one next door.

A new proof marks the first progress in decades on important cases of the so-called kissing problem. Getting there meant doing away with traditional approaches.

Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial intelligence are starting to transform the subject’s future.

"It's like you're…baiting them in," said one adoptive mother.

Three high schoolers and their mentor revisited a century-old theorem to prove that all knots can be found in a fractal called the Menger sponge.

Mathematicians have long wondered how “shapes of constant width” behave in higher dimensions. A surprisingly simple construction has given them an answer.

Radio play-by-play taught me about the game’s stark beauty — and who my grandmother was.

The world needs to dig up far more minerals to meet climate goals. But mining poses environmental dangers that are bitterly dividing communities.

A new approach to geothermal energy makes it possible to tap the energy of hot rocks just about anywhere. A pilot plant in Nevada is now helping to power Google data centers.

Ukraine’s fearless and expert EV mechanics bring electric vehicles declared unfixable in the US and Canada back to life on the other side of the world.